He’s a golfer not a person people should look up to for moral guidance, he and all of those at the masters have talent that plays a game that many love- I celebrate their determination, skill and dedication to the game

He has God-given athletic ability. He chose to use that ability to be a role model for self aggrandizement and immoral behavior.

Greatness is not in a golf swing. Greatness is in character, and what one does to help his fellow man. How many USO tours has Woods been on? How many hospitals has he toured? The answer is somewhere near zero.

One of his conquests is the just-legal daughter of a friend of ours. She worshiped him since she was 14. He turned that teenage crush into another place to bury his pee-pee.

He is nothing more than in immoral prick.

Tiger is the role model for every Black kid who things money, acquired in any way possible, is a guarantee of special treatment and a cessation of the requirement to lead a moral, just life.

Stop and think for a moment what his kids are going to experience for the rest of their lives, the snickers, the put-downs.

He is no better than some BA rapper. Both have talent. Woods just fooled us for a while that he is a nice guy.

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posted on 04/10/2011 1:50:59 PM PDT
by MindBender26
(While the MSM slept.... we have become relevant media in America.)

Tiger will now never be a better golfer than Nicklaus because Nicklaus achieved all he did while sustaining a marriage and a family. Something Tiger has proven incapable of doing. Tiger knows he blew the more important of the two endeavors. Will he win again? Sure, but it will be hollow because he lost at what was really important. His commitment to his family.

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posted on 04/10/2011 1:58:16 PM PDT
by TruthBeforeAll
(To a liberal, if an idea is a complete & utter disaster, it's only because there's not enough of it.)

Woods is an incredible golfer, there's no disputing that. However, talent, be it in athletics, entertainment, the arts, business, or whatever, DOES NOT equate moral character.

Tiger mastered the art of APPEARING in public to be a great role model. He didn't cover himself in tattoos or surround himself with thugs, but in private he used financial blackmail to treat his wife like a doormat and used his fame to treat impressionable young women like whores.

In the end, he proved himself to be exactly the negative role model that so many contrasted him against.

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posted on 04/10/2011 1:58:32 PM PDT
by wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)

Tiger is up there in his behavior with other horribly screwed up sports heroes, like Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle and all the others above whom you obviously tower, morally. They haven’t been pilloried, though. Wonder why?

Get over it.

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posted on 04/10/2011 2:03:30 PM PDT
by jessduntno
("Money...can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them." - Rand)

Actually, it was posted under sports. The tie is not noteworthy, coming from six back at the Master’s is. Most true sports fans will appreciate that accomplishment, it’s pretty amazing. He’s playing a sport, not vying for canonization.

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posted on 04/10/2011 2:45:31 PM PDT
by jessduntno
("Money...can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them." - Rand)

Actually, it was posted under sports. The tie is not noteworthy, coming from six back at the Masters is. Most true sports fans will appreciate that accomplishment, its pretty amazing. Hes playing a sport, not vying for canonization.

In other words, most true sports fans will dismiss the importance of morality, integrity and character of an individual simply because of some athletic achievement.

Oh. To further answer your question, in case you have yet to realize it, people who make the pilgrimage to Augusta are usually more than just casual watchers of the game. Tiger got a real warm reception (including standing ovations) all the way around. He’s apologized, he’s kept his nose clean and he’s coughed up $50 million cash, not to mention the hundreds of millions in endorsement fees. Yet there is still venom. I wonder if there is something else at play?

If John Daley could stay sober long enough to find the course, or take some time off from brawling with one of his “girlfriends” in the street, everyone would be rooting for him. The Babe sure got off easy and he made Tiger look like a choir boy. At least Tiger wasn’t a public reprobate. I find it ... odd. Like there is something else that inspires hatred of Tiger.

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posted on 04/10/2011 3:12:33 PM PDT
by jessduntno
("Money...can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them." - Rand)

It's not his harem of prostitutes and porn stars that I find classless about him. It's his behavior on the course when he hits a bad shot. He has no problem blurting out the f-word and G-damn left and right in front of the camera, while little Jimmy and Katie are watching.

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posted on 04/10/2011 4:32:14 PM PDT
by crosshairs
(Say what you want about the South, but you never hear of anyone retiring and moving north.)

Babe Ruth lived in a different media era. I guarantee you that if news broke that Phil Mickelson was the same kind of moral reprobate as Tiger, there would be at least as much disdain for Phil, and even more from the media.

Eldrick played the last 10 holes in even par. He had his chance and couldnt take advantage.”

Yep. He took a pretty good run at it on the front nine, but fell on the backside - kind of opposite of what he usually does at Augusta. First round he’s played in a long time though where he looked like himself...his putter failed him. Hell of a shot on 15, thought he might shake it off, but there were some pretty good young players out there that closed. I never saw an ending with that many guys in the hunt. Good new crop of young players from European Tour.

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posted on 04/10/2011 5:13:04 PM PDT
by jessduntno
("Money...can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them." - Rand)

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